Conflict of interest in medical publishing exists when a participant’s private interests compete with his or her responsibilities to the scientific community, readers, and society. While conflict of interest is common, it reaches the level of concern when “a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual’s behavior or judgment was motivated by his or her competing interests”1. Having a comp...

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 This statement revises our earlier “WAME Recommendations on ChatGPT and Chatbots in Relation to Scholarly Publications” (January 20, 2023). The revision reflects the proliferation of chatbots their expanding use scholarly publishing over last few months, as well emerging concerns regarding lack authenticity content when using chatbots. These are intended inform editors help t...

Microarray technology has become one of the most important tools for genome-wide mRNA measurements. The technique has been successfully applied to many areas in modern biology including cancer research, identification of drug targets, and categorization of genes involved in the cell cycle. Nevertheless, the analysis of microarray data is difficult due to the vast dimensionality and the high lev...

OBJECTIVE To review and analyze the regulatory framework of clinical trial registration, use of existing tools (publicly accessible national/international registration databases), and users' perspectives to identify possible barriers to registration compliance by sponsors and researchers in Argentina. METHODS Internationally registered trials recruiting patients in Argentina were found throug...

Throughout the year, I receive questions from our Editorial Board members, reviewers, and authors about conflict of interest (COI) and disclosure—what it means, how comprehensive it should be, and how it impacts the validity of a study. Concerns arise on many fronts, from the impartiality (or lack thereof) of authors who submit a study about a product in which they are somehow invested to the r...

the editorial from the last issue of the Croa-tian Medical Journal (CMJ), we described the challenge to the quality of the Journal and integrity of its editors, put forward by one of the Journal owners – Zagreb University School of Medicine , at its Council meeting in November 2007 (1). We invited our critics – the dean of the Za-invited to speak about the CMJ at the Council meeting, to voice t...

The Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal (biij), like all other scientific journals, is concerned with the serious issue of plagiarism. The Publications Committee of the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) has prepared an editorial on plagiarism, which is reproduced here with some modifications, with permission from the IOMP. In addition, this editorial is also consisten...

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) is a group of general medical journal editors meeting regularly and works on Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (www.ICMJE.org). In doing so it receives comments and suggestions from editors, researchers, associations and funding companies. The committee members ...

Journals have been publishing the results of scientific investigations since the founding of Philosophical Transactions in 1665. Since then we have witnessed a massive expansion in the number of journals to the point that there are now approximately 28,000 active, peer reviewed journals collectively publishing more than 1.8 million articles per year. Before the mid-1990s, these journals were on...